US Congress House Bill 2236 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on April 10 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-01-14 - Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Addresses the management and conservation of forage fish. (A forage fish is any fish at a low trophic level that contributes significantly to the diets of other fish, marine mammals, or birds and serves as a conduit for energy transfer to species at a higher trophic level.) The Department of Commerce must establish guidelines to assist regional fishery management councils in (1) developing a list of unmanaged forage fish areas and prohibiting the development of any new forage fish fisheries until the potential impacts of such fisheries have been assessed; and (2) setting annual catch limits for forage fish fisheries that assess, specify, and reduce such limits by the diet needs of other fish species and marine wildlife. The bill adds shad (American shad and hickory shad) and river herring (blueback herring and alewife) to the list of managed stocks for the New England and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council.

Forage Fish Conservation Act

Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI]	Rep. Brian Mast [R-FL]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Billy Long [R-MO]
Rep. Fred Upton [R-MI]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA]
Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Ed Case [D-HI]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]
Rep. Francis Rooney [R-FL]	Rep. Greg Steube [R-FL]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]	Rep. Steven Palazzo [R-MS]
Rep. Austin Scott [R-GA]	Rep. Earl Carter [R-GA]	Rep. Richard Hudson [R-NC]	Rep. Thomas Suozzi [D-NY]
Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-14	House	Subcommittee Hearings Held.
2019-04-29	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
2019-04-10	House	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
2019-04-10	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2236/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr2236/BILLS-116hr2236ih.pdf